no, because afaik, Islam asserts a religious manifest destiny not ethnic superiority. The 5%ers are weird tho
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I don't quite understand what they assert. I don't think they themselves do.
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they say white & brown people are inferior (products of ancient genetic engineering) - similar stuff to white nationalists
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I thought they just believed white people were the devil. Didn't know this ancient genetic engineering angle.
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they call them the Devil and there's a whole backstory - supposed to be destroyed but 5% doesn't do violence much afaik
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seems like it's in ancient aliens territory, or Joseph Smith, or Scientology. 'Bad mess' theology. Comically bad.
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it would be interesting to apply your messiness model to old religions, new cults, misunderstandings of Darwin, etc
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yeah I'm really interested in magical thinking which is about confusing layers of map/territory
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multiple/failed partial encodings --> mess
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good religion seems to spawn good fiction. Bad religion seems to spawn from bad fiction.
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oddly 5% nation of islam has spawned some of the best music of our time
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